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in reply to Daniel Filan

Also I'm still kind of pissed at the two forms for the future tense.
in reply to Daniel Filan

still kind of coe-pissed?

(sorry, can't tell if this was already the joke :P)

in reply to Ben Millwood

It was not! TBC the thing about there being two forms for the future tense is a feature of Latin as a whole, not just the verb "incipere"
in reply to Daniel Filan

In general on one hand I'm like "I'm so grateful English has so much grammar and vocabulary to make it so expressive" but when I see Latin I'm like "Japanese copes with just having past past and non-past plus some participles, why can't you" (not even getting to the whole thing of having different genders and different declensions for nouns and adjectives).
in reply to Daniel Filan

Ironically "coep-" is now the perfect stem I am perhaps least likely to forget.